Bold train robbery holds up westbound Big Four at Muncie
A lone robber on Big Four passenger No. 27 robbed ten passengers of about $200 as the masked bandit leaped from the moving train near Muncie Indiana. Passengers fired in vain. police have a description. Benjamin Banta Detroit salesman confronted the bandit and complied as the robber cried for money.
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Muncie
Ind
Big Four
Winchester
Seimia
Munele
Banta
Th Street
Walnut Street
Pittsburg Street Car Accident Injures Dozens
Thirty six passengers were injured when a Pittsburg street car left the rails at Westwood and hung over a sixty foot embankment. Ten were seriously hurt and three fatally injured, all Carnegie residents. The car speeded along a rough roadway and stopped with the front end over the embankment as passengers fled into a ravine suffering broken limbs cuts and bruises.
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Pittsburg
Westwood
Carnegie
Publishing House Head in Philadelphia Suicide
Craige Lippincott head of J. B. Lippincott & Co. shot himself at his 218 West Rittenhouse Square home. An official statement cites a period of temporary aberration as the likely cause of the fatal act.
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Philadelphia
Craige Lippincott
J. 8. Lippincott & Co
West Rittenhouse Square
Lippincott
Lfe
Insane Stockman kills family then himself in Montana tragedy
In Billings area, stockman Chiff Root shot and killed BF A Rehber his father in law, James Brudges his stepson, Mrs Thompson a neighbor, and his wife before taking his own life. The Root home on Half Breed creek, fifty miles from Billings, was scene of the deadly spree. Authorities suspect temporary insanity.
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Billings
Mont
Chiff Root
BF. A. Rehber
James Brudges
Thompson
Root
Half Breed Creek
Oldest New York Woman Isther Davis Dies at 117
Mrs Isther Davis born in Russia and aged 117 died in New York City. She retained her faculties to the end, noted as the oldest woman in the city.
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New York City
Isther Davis
Russia
New York
Dress on ten dollars a year keeps value with age
Mrs Mary W Shattuck of Groton says she has dressed well for 53 years at ten dollars annually based on account books since her 1858 marriage. She emphasizes careful care of clothes, buying quality, and frugal accessories to maintain a stylish yet economical wardrobe.
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Boston
Mary W. Shattuck
Groton
Mrs. Shattuck
Lady Larkin
England
Francis Larkin
Queen Victoria
Platinum rises sharply amid record New York prices
Platinum costs reach 43 dollars for hard metal and 41 dollars for soft in Maiden Lane, far above gold and near-peak levels. The metal’s price has jumped about 10 dollars in six months, with historical highs noted from 1905 to 1908 and current supply mainly as a California Oregon by product and Urals Russia as the primary source.
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New York
Maiden Lane
California
Oregon
Ural Mountains
Russia
South America
Canada
Cannon of Lafitte Found Hidden in Galveston Bay
A cannon used by the pirate Lafitte with the date 1814 was located at the bottom of Galveston Bay near Lafitte's rendezvous in Texas.
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LaFitte
Galveston
Tex
Galveston Bay
Dancing as Public School Duty Says Professor Zueblin
Professor Charles Zueblin argues dancing should be taught in Chicago public schools as essential as reading and writing. He calls dancing a form of grace and cites six human wants health wealth sociability taste knowledge and righteousness as guiding goals, urging classrooms to unite men and women beyond dinner table small talk.
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Chicago
Charles Zueblin
Fellowship of the Common Life
Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian Church
Zueblin
Widener Buys Gainsborough Portrait for Near 178000
P A B Widener is reported to have purchased Gainsborough's portrait of Migs Linley and her brother Thomas Linley. The payment is near 178 thousand dollars.
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Gainsborough
Widener
London
P. A. B. Widener
Migs Linley
Thomas Linley
Epilepsy Cured, New York Doctors Claim Great Results
Reports from New York physicians of the Waterman Institute say their epilepsy treatment yields wonderful results. Old cases improve, with many patients claiming cures. requests for the remedy are urged at 122 East 26th Street, New York, with Branch 63.
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New York
Dr. Waterman Institute
East 26Th St
Boarder praises landlady honesty over inn sign
A boarder compliments the landlady calling her honest. He jokes that honesty shows on the front of her establishment as the sign reads Boarders taken in. The exchange underscores a humorous streetwise moment from Stray Stories.
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Boarder
Allen's Root-Ease Foot Powder and Other Remedies
An ad-like fragment promotes Allen's Root-Ease antiseptic powder for tired feet with 4 doses claimed to remove corns and bunions. It also touts Dr. Pierce's Pellets for constipation and Garfield Lea herbal laxative as a natural remedy. Includes stray quotes and attribution to W. S. Royston and a Shelley reference.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Garfield Lea
Change in Woman's Life in Graniteville Vermont
A testimonial from Mrs. Onas of Graniteville Vermont praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during the change of life. The letter asserts the remedy cures inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, and nervous prostration and claims broad endorsement and free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Graniteville
E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Onas
Barclay
B.F
Lydia E. Pinkham
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